Robert Butterworth
Senior Technical Designer at Microsoft
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Butterworth is a Senior Technical Designer with over 26 years in games, mixed reality, and application development, currently shaping technical design at Microsoft in Vancouver. He brings deep technical-art leadership from senior roles across major studios (including Capcom, United Front Games and Krome Studios) and a long history of building pipelines, tools and production-ready art systems. Known for translating artistic vision into robust engineering workflows, he blends software development training with hands-on environmental and technical art experience. Based in Australia but primarily working in Canada’s game hubs, he pairs mentorship and studio-scale problem solving with a pragmatic focus on cross-discipline collaboration and shipping polished interactive experiences.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Information Technology (Software Development) Software engineering Games Development and pipelines 3D & 2D software education, Diploma of Information Technology (Software Development) Software engineering Games Development and pipelines 3D & 2D software education at Qantm CollegeDiploma - Multimedia User Interface design Graphics & Interactive design 2D & 3D software education Project managment, Diploma - Multimedia User Interface design Graphics & Interactive design 2D & 3D software education Project managment at TAFE QueenslandMaya and Illusion short course Maya Illusion SGI systems, Maya and Illusion short course Maya Illusion SGI systems at Silicon Studios
English, Hungarian
Github Skills (15)
artnet6
neopixel6
wifi6
ascii6
fbx5
tally5
visualization4
wifimanager4
esp82664
wireless3
esp323
fastled3
arduino3
jekyll2
hosts1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
techartorg/TAD_Resources
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
RobertButterworth/TechArtMafia.github.io
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
tech-artjekyllartmafia
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